Common Core State Standards Curriculum Alignment Q&A

1.Question:Can you tell me if this is a bid for services
relating to aligning curriculum or a bid for actual curriculum that has been
aligned?TouchMath has math curriculum
for Kindergarten through second grade that is aligned to the common core state
standards?

Answer:This is a bid for services aligning
curriculum.The district is not seeking
to purchase new programs.

2. Question:The subject RFP includes a section “Contents
of the Proposal” under which is a mixture of requirements of the vendor and
proposal content.Items 2, 3, 4 & 5
are content related, and others are requirements or information for the vendor
proposing.Item 9, Proposal Summary is
referenced under item 10, Costs, as being limited to two pages. Is the Proposal
Summary to be the contents of the proposal that covers items 2, 3, 4 and 5 or
is it to be a separate description?If
the latter is there a page limit for the proposal itself?

Answer:Item 9 as a separate item is limited to two
pages.Otherwise there is no page limit
requirement.Items 2, 3, 4 & 5 do
not have to be part of that two pages.

3. Question:Re: requirement #3, "providing
on-site facilitation during the summer of 2013 to meet the needs of varying
levels of understanding and alignment of CCSS..." Can you clarify what
is meant by varying levels of understanding (for example, are there
varying understandings around CCSS, developing curriculum planning guides,
both)?

Answer:The level of understanding of the CCSS's
themselves varies. The consultant should be able to provide a plan for
developing the curriculum planning guides.

4.Question:Related to the "varying levels of understanding"
can you provide an approximate percentage of your staff (participants in the
on-site facilitation) that have novice, intermediate or advanced levels of
understanding of CCSS?

Answer:There
are likely few staff at advanced levels of understanding the CCSS. An estimate
of over half to be at an intermediate level of understanding is probably
accurate.

5.Question:
How is the district envisioning the
on-site facilitation (ie. 1-2 day workshops at each grade level, multiple
workshops throughout the summer, etc)?

Answer:This
is really up to the consultant to present. The district does not want to stifle
any ideas, keeping in mind that summer is the planned time for the work to be
completed.

6.Question:Approximately how many participants will
be involved in these summer on-site facilitation
workshops, and will the audience be primarily classroom teachers,
school administrators or a combination of district employees?

Answer:The
audience will be primarily classroom teachers. There will be approximately 5
teachers per grade level K-5 and 4 per grade level 6-8.

7.Question:Please articulate how the district
will evaluate project success at the end of the initial contract (August 31,
2013).

Answer:Success would be indicated by a complete set
of curriculum planning guides K - 8 in mathematics and ELA.